Altman On Altman,New

An Exciting Collection Of Original Interviews With The Infamously Outspoken Director Of Short Cuts.From Nashville To The Player To Gosford Park, Robert Altman'S Irreverent, Iconoclastic Style Has Palpably Altered The Landscape Of American Cinema. Cited As An Influence By Such Envelopepushing Directors As Spike Jonze And P. T. Anderson, Altman Has Created A Genre All His Own, Notable For Its Improvised, Overlapping Dialogue And Creative Cinematography. One Of The Key Moviemakers Of The 1970Scommonly Considered The Heyday Of American Filmaltman'S Irrepressible Combination Of Unorthodox Vision And Style Is Most Clearly Evidenced In The Fourteen Movies He Released Across That Decade. By Finetuning His Talent In A Diverse Array Of Genres, Including Westerns, Thrillers, And Loopy, Absurdist Comediesall Subtly Altered To Fit His Signature Mtierhe Cemented His Place As One Of Our Most Esteemed Directors.In These Conversations With David Thompson, Altman Reflects On His Start In Industrial Filmmaking, As Well As His Tenure In Television Directing Alfred Hitchcock Presents And Bonanza, And His Big Break In Feature Films As The Director Of The Enormously Popular M*A*S*H, A Project For Which He Was The Last Possible Resort Behind Fourteen Other Directors. The Resulting Portrait Reveals A Quixotic Man Whose Films Continue To Delight And Challenge Audiences, Both In The United States And Beyond.